JUNE 22nd, 2009
‘The Girl Effect’ promotes the idea that girls, adolescent girls, are the most likely agents of change in the developing world, despite often being invisible in their societies and in the media.
‘The Girl Effect’ is defined as ‘the powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society’.
Watch this powerful short film for more on ‘The Girl Effect’.
JUNE 22nd, 2009
The Pollocks art collective recently opened a temporary shop named Worthless that played with notions of consumerism and the perceived value of material objects. Participants brought in a variety of random objects to the London store that would usually be considered junk, everything from old hard drives to tattered shoes. The team at Worthless then set to work customizing all the cast-off goods into unique pieces of art. Customers were then able to buy back their submitted items for whatever the felt they were worth.
JUNE 19th, 2009
The ‘Outlet Wall’ turns the problem of wire clutter and stretching that cable to reach the power point on its head by covering the wall with outlets. Interesting wallpaper with plent of places to plug your toaster in!
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